DECEMBER 2016

The Accounting Department: Quiet Heroes of American Housewife

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by Henning FogEvery Tuesday at 8:30 pm (on ABC!), Katie

Otto and her family fill television screens with their misadventures and wry take on contemporary American motherhood. You know the actors: Katy Mixon, Diedrich Bader. You see the creator’s name — Sarah Dunn — and those of the other producers splashed across the opening titles. Maybe you’ve even IMDB’d the costume designer or composers! You’re a curious person who reads the CBS Studio Center newsletter.

BUT it’s probably safe to say you don’t know who comprises American Housewife’s accounting department. “We are often the forgotten members of the staff,” says Teresa Drapkin, the show’s payroll accountant. “If we’re doing our job correctly, no one knows who we are.”

Teresa Drapkin, Lawrence Harris, Amanda Simonson, David Alcala, Lynn Baum, and Monica Muelhause-Horn are the brilliant minds responsible for paying equipment rentals, approving budgets, filing invoices, and — maybe most important to staff mental health — distributing paychecks. Very tangibly, the accounting team interacts with every single department on the show. They are as integral to the daily functioning of American Housewife as Line Producer Chris Plourde, or La Croix.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I started out in this business,” says David, 2nd Assistant Accountant. “Accounting gives you such a broad scope of what’s happening all the time.”

In depth knowledge of byzantine accounting software is a pre-req for the job, most of which is done on PCs (accounting admits they like standing out in an otherwise Mac world) using a service called Global Vista, which none of us would understand. And while accounting has been around… forever, new working strategies are constantly being devised. “You pick up stuff from one show, bring it to the next,” David says. “There’s always a better way to work.”

I asked the accounting team, as respectfully as possible, how they navigate what seems from the outside like a tedious job. “Just do it,” says Monica, Production Accountant. “Just not in a way that infringes on Nike copyright.” Amanda, the 1st Assistant Accountant, admits you do need to love numbers. “But you also need to be a little crazy. You have to have a personality to do production accounting.” Whether that means donning elaborate hats to wear on paycheck day (Monica’s idea) or producing more break room

cookies and cupcakes than all other Housewife departments combined, accounting is always living out loud.

At the end of a wide-ranging 20 minute conversation, there was just question left: what did everyone think of the 2016 Ben Affleck movie, The Accountant? “I don’t know,” 2nd Assistant Lynn Baum told me. “It seems unrealistic to me that an accountant would also be an international assassin.”

Daniel DiMaggio, Meg Donnelly, Katy Mixon, Diedrich Bader and Julia Butters - the cast of American Housewife

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Holiday security TipsThe holiday season unfortunately tends to bring forth an increase in theft. Employees and tenants should take the following precautions to help ensure the security of their belongings. * Do not leave wallets, purses or cash unattended at any time.* Secure laptop computers with a locking device or store in a

secure area when not in use.* Offices and dressing rooms should be secured when

unoccupied. * Do not leave gifts or valuables in offices or dressing rooms

overnight unless these items are locked in a desk or cabinet.* Do not hold security doors open for others.* Do not allow unaccompanied delivery persons or couriers to

wander through offices.* Report any suspicious persons to Security immediately.

Have a SAFE and happy holiday season!

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D E C E M B E RU n i v e r s a l H U m a n r i g H t s m o n t H

People’s Choice Awards 2017 Nominees

Favorite Comedic TV Actor Andy Samberg – Brooklyn Nine Nine

Matthew Perry – Odd Couple Tim Allen – Last Man Standing

Favorite Cable TV Comedy Baby Daddy

Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team The Talk

Favorite Actor In A New TV Series Matt LeBlanc – Man With A Plan

Favorite New TV Comedy American Housewife

The Great IndoorsMan with a Plan

Favorite Comedic Collaboration Lip Sync Battle with Channing Tatum and

Jenna Dewan Tatum

The People’s Choice Awards will air on January 18, 2017.

Kevin Dixon Tim Holly Joel Price

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Randy Shoemaker Kevin Tucker

Norma Anguiano

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On November 16, 2016, CBS Corporation hosted its annual Supplier Diversity Outreach Event at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, CA. The event included remarks by Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation and an award presentation by Kevin Frazier, co-host of Entertainment Tonight. The event also featured an expo and targeted matchmaker meetings between more than 50 minority and women-owned suppliers and representatives from CBS business units, as well as guests from other entertainment industry companies.

The event was managed and coordinated by Natalie Robinson, Vice President of CBS

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CBS Holds Annual Supplier Diversity Networking Event at CBS Studio Center

Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Diversity and Sandra Reed-Funnell, from CBS Studio Center. Tom Hogan, Chief Procurement Officer, CBS Strategic Sourcing emceed the event. Also in the program were remarks from CBS Executives, including Mike Klausman, Executive Vice President, West Coast Operations & Engineering President, CBS Studio Center, Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Executive Vice President, Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion & Communications at CBS Entertainment, Josie Thomas, Executive Vice President & Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, and Mike Smyklo, Senior Vice President of Strategic Sourcing.

During the event, the CBS Diverse Supplier Recognition Award was presented to Unique Catering, Inc, a Veteran-owned catering company who supports CBS Sports during major events such as the US OPEN and the Masters. Sandra Reed-Funnell was presented with the CBS Internal Advocate Recognition Award.

For more information on CBS Supplier Diversity and CBS Diversity, please visit www.cbsdiversity.com.

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For the last decade, CBS Law Department employee Clara Schwartz, in conjunction with the Studio, has hosted an annual holiday party for kindergarten and first grade students. This year’s recipient was the Twenty-Fourth Street School in Los Angeles. The trip to the Studio is quite a treat for the children, as well as for the staff here on the lot as they serenade us with Christmas carols and Chanukah songs. The Studio provides the kids with a bare tree for them to decorate with their handmade ornaments, cookies and milk are served, and of course Santa and an elf or two are in attendance. And despite the sunny skies and warm weather, thanks to our SFX department it’s snowing here when they arrive! This adventure is presented to the children as an exchange of gifts with Santa; they will give Mr. Klaus two gifts, the gift of songs and the ornaments they create, and of course they don’t leave here without a little something from Santa!

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